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Social Networking: How to keep the creeps from tracking you

Your friends can tell where you are and what you’re up to but are you also giving creeps a detailed map of your daily routine.

Many smartphones and digital cameras come with geotagging capabilities, which means the location the photo was taken is added to the photo. This information is then used by some applications, for instance to sort photos based on location.

The problem with geotagging is that the information can be read by anyone. If you upload

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Burglars Used Social Network Status Updates To Select Victims

A mobile app called Foursquare, which notifies users of your location has been used as a tool for home burglars. A site named “Please Rob Me” is attempting to inform those of apps likes these, which provide information which puts them in danger of being burglarized.

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Aug 12, 2010 at 11:37 am

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Writer Publishes Racist Article About Black Twitter Users

On Tuesday, Writer Farhad Manjoo posted a controversial article titled, “How Black People Use Twitter” on Slate.com. The writer attempted to expose Black people’s behavior on Twitter, describing popular Trending Topics like “Black Ghetto Baby Names” or “If Santa Were Black”, as a game of racial insults and buffoonery which involves a large sector of Black Twitter users. The article holds a hint of validity, in recognizing the presence of a personal connection between users which extends outside the

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Aug 1, 2010 at 9:10 am

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Kanye West Anoints His First Follow On Twitter

Rapper Kanye West, who some are saying has the funniest Twitter feed of all time, has been on the popular social networking site for all of four days and amassed more than 345,000 followers.

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